(a) What would be oberved on adding a 5% alkaline potassium permanganate solution drop by drop to some warm thanol in a test tube? Wrote the name of the compound formed during the chemical reation Also write chemical equation of the reaction which takes place.
(b) How would you distinguish experimentally between an alcholhol and a carboxylic acid on the basis of a chemical property?

Answer

(b) A carboxylic acid reacts with sodium hydrogencrbonate to give brisk effeervescence of carbon dioxie gas but an alcohol does not react with sodium hydrogencarbonate